The Last Thing You Acquired #40  

Another weekend find!
Curtis Jere "Birds in Flight" metal wall sculpture in a rare blue patina. Signed 1986.
21" Tall - 46" Wide
Peruche

Meow.
Whooooo...

1972 Hans Wegner J16 rocker at the thrift shop on my way home from work today 😉

Jes: You are a lucky #$%^&*()

thanks for the kind word, Lief 😉

Jesgord, I would be insanely envious if I didn't already have one myself, and also I don't have room for two. Whew.

You are very welcome. Nice rocking chair too. Oddly I know of two of these picked up in thrift stores in my town in the last year. I was sure the odds were zero I'd hear of any more picked up in thrift stores for a long, long time.

Jesgord my jealousy knows no bounds, I kind of hate you....I'm trying not to but it's not really working...that's one gorgeous rocking chair!

Got this entire Broyhill Brasilia set.

That is actually the 2nd J16 rocker I have found. Some of you may remember this one that I found a few years ago at a local consignment shop. They did not know what it was. I think these slip through the cracks because of the place/way they are marked. This one, is now in my living room.

Mine slipped through the cracks (into my sweaty little hands, for $15) too. I wonder if it's partly due to the chair looking more Shaker-ish than Danish Mod? And the wood--if they were teak and not beech or lacquered black, it'd be a different story, I think.

What is the place/way they are marked so I know what to look for?

FDB logo/year/"made in denmark" under one of the arms. See link below for examples:
http://www.designaddict.com/forum/Identification/Hans-Wegner-J16-stamp-a...

Bernhard Rohne for mastercraft coffee table

Wow -- what a productive month !
Why, I want to know, do we want so often to "change" (i.e., improve, restore, renovate) the stuff we find, even before we get it home ? A dark-stained pair of chairs is never going to be "virgin" birch again -- and a light-colored table with a split will always look better when unglossed than when repaired and then piano-finished: the repair really can't help telegraphing through the finish, sooner or later, if not immediately.
Find them, love them -- and use them, as is. You'll know a potential goldmine or perfect example when you see it; trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear only insults the silkworm and the sow, both !
(I know, I know -- you're going to do it no matter what. Carry on . . .)